What to see in America . sistently pressed up the hill on every side. At length, whenfour hundred and fifty-six of the defenders, including their North Carolina 169 commander, lay dead, the rest surrendered. Only twenty-eight Americans were slain. After the battle, the victorshied away to their crude civilization beyond the was their only service in the war, but it turned the tideat a dark moment in favor of America. The people of the state are called Tar-heels, a sobriquetgiven during the Civil War because so many soldiers camefrom the pineries with tar on their Pl
What to see in America . sistently pressed up the hill on every side. At length, whenfour hundred and fifty-six of the defenders, including their North Carolina 169 commander, lay dead, the rest surrendered. Only twenty-eight Americans were slain. After the battle, the victorshied away to their crude civilization beyond the was their only service in the war, but it turned the tideat a dark moment in favor of America. The people of the state are called Tar-heels, a sobriquetgiven during the Civil War because so many soldiers camefrom the pineries with tar on their Plantation House and Live Oaks XVII South Carolina The earliest permanent settlement in the Palmetto Statewas made in 1670 on the banks of the Ashley River at Albe-marle Point, three miles from the present city of Charleston;but of the town which grew up there nothing now remainsexcept a ditch or two, and the name Old Town Creek, whichis that of a little stream forming one of the town of the settlers shifted their homes within a few yearsand established themselves where Charleston now is. Atthe opening of the Revolution, Charleston was one of thethree leading seaports of the country. In front of the city,on Sullivans Island, the Americans erected a strong breast-work of palmetto logs and sandbags. The British fleetattacked the rude fort unsuccessfully on June 28, 1776. Inthe thick of the fight the staff that held aloft the Americanflag was broken by a cannon ball, and the flag fell outside 170 South Carolina 171 the fort. Sergt. WilHam Jasper, an ilUterate youth whocou
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